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Neural Substrate and Sleep Loss

The effects of sleep loss on the neural substrate that underpins accurate prediction and control.

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Jan 14, 2026

are recommendations for consistent sleep habits based upon regular eight hour workdays?

Short answer: no — mainstream sleep recommendations are grounded in circadian biology, epidemiology and performance research rather than an assumption that everyone works an eight‑hour day, though man...

Jan 9, 2026

Where there any articles made about cognitive distortions caused by sleep deprivation? I mean failures in predictive processing, cognitive stuff, making more bias itd

Yes — there is a growing body of empirical literature showing that sleep deprivation produces measurable distortions in perception, attention, memory and decision-making, and several studies frame tho...